Dale Zimmerman, Acclaimed Naturalist Details Life of Research In East Africa

Silver City, NM - Dr. Dale Zimmerman's life experiences are as colorful as the birds documented in a new memoir, Turaco Country: Reminiscences of East African Birding, a lengthy publication that took more than a decade to write.

Zimmerman's memoir details a half-century of ornithological investigations in East Africa, researching birdlife and wild habitats through decades of change in the country, which he considers a second home.

GǣI have been in love with Africa since I first went there in 1961,Gǥ said Zimmerman. GǣThe memoir details my experiences from 1961 to 1992 where I made over 20 trips to the country.Gǥ

While a professor and head of the biology department at Western New Mexico University, Zimmerman was awarded a national science grant allowing him to explore birdlife, at a time when the subject material had seen little investigation.

Often traveling with his wife Marian, also an ornithologist and botanist, the coupleG